Sometimes Google Chrome throw a Could not decode a text frame as UTF-8 error. It happens when the server send invalid unicode characters (see Unicode surrogates) to the browser (via websockets or any other transport) and . I've found two work-around for this issue.

The first one is from my point of view, the best approach (the original code came from SockJS codebase). It removes all the invalid unicode characters from the string so you can send it from the server-side without further decoding.
The second one takes another approach which seems valid (I only tested the former) but requires an extra decoding step on the other side:
Hope this help !

[Update] Dougal Campbell made some important notes: “the second method preserves the original data, while the first strips out information, altering the original data”. Thus, the first method can lead to potential security leaks (see his comment).

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